Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...titles. Gary donated his whole purse to charity: $5,000 to the Cancer Fund, $20,000 to the U.S. Golf Association, "because I am so indebted to this country." He also gave his caddy $2,000. Thereupon his lawyer assured everybody that with endorsements, personal appearances and all, Player wouldn't have to worry about where his next ball was coming from. "Winning today," he said, "will be worth $500,000 to Gary...
Printer Powers looked as if he had been hit in the face with pi. He regarded Mrs. Schiff as a warm supporter of trade unionism, and said that he hoped she wouldn't resign. After all, she is "very important to the New York scene...
When World War II broke out, Mac enlisted as an army private after memorizing an optometrist's chart so that his poor eyesight wouldn't keep him out. He became an officer, was assigned as a military aide to Admiral Alan G. Kirk. In wartime London, Bill Bundy recalls, Mac knew all the right people. "He went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket...
...official: "You can't exclude the possibility of some arrière pensée [ulterior motives]." Reported Le Monde: "The hidden intentions of the British can easily be guessed at. This was a fine opportunity to remind Europe of a period when France was the one who wouldn't play ring-around-the-rosy. The experts on perfidy are whispering that this was a tit-for-tat for a certain press conference [by De Gaulle in 1963] that closed the door of the Common Market against Albion...
...chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who two weeks ago shook the business community by comparing 1965 with 1929, persisted in sounding bothered. Said William McChesney Martin Jr.: "I have businesses to worry about in good times and bad times. If I weren't worried, I wouldn't be in business." Lyndon Johnson tried to ease the unease that Martin had aggravated, took pains to reassure the nation that "there is no reason for gloom or doom." Thousands of anxious investors sold their shares, sending the stock market into its sharpest drop since President Kennedy's assassination...